- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
In this passage, the lieutenant and his comrades rest briefly in the rain after having trampled through the Venusian forest for an entire month in search of a shelter called a Sun Dome. This moment has biblical undertones, as the men sit two-by-two, just like the animals that enter Noah’s ark from the book of Genesis. Later, one of the men laments that they’ve been stuck in the torrential downpour for “thirty days, [and] thirty nights,” a possible nod to the biblical flood, which, according to Genesis, lasted forty nights and forty days. Of course, unlike Noah and his animals…